I've been working at it for the last week and a half now. I've been hired for a company in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area that installs fire alarm, burglar alarm, access control, and CCTV systems. They already have me working right out with fire alarm stuff, which I'm very much wanting to get in to as a career, etc.

Funny thing how I got the job too. I've been sitting doing next to nothing since I got back from Afghanistan in September, besides my month long vacation to California. A local friend suggested that I try doing fire, and apply at this place. I go get a new shirt, pants, a haircut, and show up there with no resume or anything. I ring the buzzer and the desk lady says 'the guy you'll be interviewing with is at lunch right now' so I went and hung out at Fry's for an hour and came back, filled out the application, and then the guy interviewed me pretty casually for something like an hour and he seemed to like my experience and stuff. A couple of weeks later they called and said go down to get your background check/drug screen/polygraph test tomorrow morning. I started working full time the next day

:-D